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CICS and SOA: Architecture and Integration Choices

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Published on 26 March 2012

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ISBN-10: 0738436739
ISBN-13: 9780738436739
IBM Form #: SG24-5466-06


Authors: Chris Rayns, Mark Cocker, Regis David, Subhajit Maitra, Dan Millwood, Ian Mitchell, Phil Wakelin and Nigel Williams

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    Abstract

    The service-oriented architecture (SOA) style of integration involves breaking an application down into common, repeatable services that can be used by other applications (both internal and external) in an organization, independent of the computing platforms on which the business and its partners rely.

    In recent years CICS® has added a variety of support for SOA and now provides near seamless connectivity with other IT environments. This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps IT architects to select, plan, and design solutions that integrate CICS applications as service providers and requesters.

    First, we provide an introduction to CICS service enablement and introduce the architectural choices and technologies on which a CICS SOA solution can be based.

    We continue with an in-depth analysis of how to meet functional and non-functional requirements in the areas of application interface, security, transactional scope, high availability, and scalability.

    Finally, we document three integration scenarios to illustrate how these technologies have been used by customers to build robust CICS integration solutions.

    Table of Contents

    Part 1. Architecture and technologies

    Chapter 1. Introduction to Service Enablement for CICS

    Chapter 2. Architectural choices

    Chapter 3. Technology overview

    Chapter 4. Reusing CICS applications with a 3270 presentation layer

    Part 2. Qualities of service

    Chapter 5. Application interfaces

    Chapter 6. Security

    Chapter 7. Transactional scope

    Chapter 8. High availability and scalability

    Part 3. Integration scenarios

    Chapter 9. CICS Web services scenario

    Chapter 10. CICS TG for z/OS scenario

    Chapter 11. Messaging scenario

    Part 4. Appendix

    Appendix A. Product capabilities

     

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